USDA: 20 mln birds now on farms may have had bad feed (Reuters)
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Reuters - As many as 20 million chickens currently on U.S. farms in several states may have been fed contaminated feed, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Friday. [more]
Current, ex-lawmakers arrested in Alaska oil case (Reuters)
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Reuters - An Alaska lawmaker and two of his former colleagues were arrested on Friday for allegedly soliciting and accepting bribes from VECO Corp., a private oil services company, to pass a new oil-tax system, officials said. [more]
Honey could save diabetics from amputation (AFP)
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AFP - Spreading honey on a diabetic ulcer could prevent the need to amputate an infected foot, researchers say. [more]
Mo. paroles killer of abusive husband (AP)
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AP - A 76-year-old woman left prison Friday after living 25 years behind bars for helping to kill her husband, who she said had been abusing her. [more]
Lawmaker works to put hold on VA bonuses (AP)
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AP - The chairman of a House panel wants to stop hefty bonus payments to senior Veterans Affairs officials until they reduce a severe backlog of veterans waiting for disability benefits. [more]
NJ sends subpoenas as student loan scandal spreads (Reuters)
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Reuters - The New Jersey attorney general said on Friday he issued civil subpoenas to 61 colleges, 17 student loan firms and a state authority seeking information on potential misconduct in the student loan market, a target of widening investigations nationwide. [more]
US commander predicts intensifying fighting, casualties (AFP)
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AFP - A top US commander predicted Friday intensifying fighting and more casualties as US and Iraqi forces move into sanctuaries used by Al-Qaeda to mount major terror bombings in Baghdad. [more]
Food scares reveal FDA is overwhelmed, understaffed (USATODAY.com)
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USATODAY.com - By the time federal officials learned in March that a Canadian company was recalling tainted cat and dog food from U.S. stores, it was too late for hundreds of family pets who had been sickened or killed by the products. [more]
Senate weighs drug imports amid veto threat (Reuters)
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Reuters - U.S. senators will return to a prescription drug safety bill on Monday and consider a drug importation measure that the pharmaceutical industry opposes and the White House has threatened to veto. [more]
Rove Helped Prepare Official's Testimony on Prosecutor Firings (Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg - May 4 (Bloomberg) -- The White House confirmed that President George W. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, helped prepare a senior Justice Department official to testify about the firing of U.S. attorneys. [more]
GAO to look at soldiers' brain injuries (AP)
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AP - The investigative arm of Congress said Friday it will send a team to Fort Carson to examine mental health care for Iraq war veterans after complaints that some soldiers with brain damage have been misdiagnosed. [more]
Journalists convicted in Azerbaijan (AP)
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AP - Two Azerbaijani journalists were convicted and sentenced to prison Friday for inciting hatred with an article criticizing Islam, the court said. [more]
Maine man wins NASA's glove challenge (AP)
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AP - Coming up with a glove to be worn in the void of space is not a typical design challenge, but an engineer from Maine has impressed NASA with a design he came up with at his kitchen table. Peter Homer, 45, won $200,000 in NASA's "Astronaut Glove Challenge" at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks this week. [more]
Ex-aide could be liability for lawmaker (AP)
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AP - As California GOP Rep. John Doolittle awaits prosecutors' next move in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, his future is tied to that of a former aide who also worked with Abramoff. [more]
U.S.: Pet food ingredient mislabeled (AP)
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AP - The exporter of a contaminated pet food ingredient blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats in the United States may have avoided Chinese export inspections by labeling it a nonfood product, a U.S. government report says. [more]
Former, current Alaska lawmakers charged (AP)
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AP - One current and two former Alaska legislators pleaded not guilty Friday to extortion — one man sought a plum job in the Barbados, prosecutors claim — and taking bribes to support legislation benefiting an oil services company. [more]
Christian-Muslim wounds still "very deep": Khatami (Reuters)
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Reuters - Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami met Pope Benedict on Friday and said the wounds between Christians and Muslims were still "very deep," including those caused by a controversial papal speech last September. [more]
New names added to Vietnam Wall (AP)
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AP - The name of Army Sgt. Richard M. Pruett is now etched into the glossy black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial — nearly four decades after he was wounded during a combat mission in South Vietnam. [more]
Spare any change? Canada unveils C$1 million coin (Reuters)
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Reuters - The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a welcome addition to any piggy bank on Thursday -- a monster gold coin with a face value of C$1 million (455,000 pounds) that it says is the world's biggest, purest and highest denomination coin. [more]
Kids breathing pollutants on aging buses (AP)
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AP - Day in and day out, children across the U.S. are riding to school on aging buses, breathing what some activists say is a dangerous brew of pollutants up to five times dirtier than the air outside. It is a situation that Congress and many states have sought to fix in recent years. In fact, in 2005 federal lawmakers passed a measure to replace or retrofit the dirtiest diesel engines across the nation. [more]
'Hazzard' car fetches $10 million bid (AP)
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AP - A version of the General Lee — a 1969 Dodge Charger made famous in the television show "The Dukes of Hazzard" — fetched a winning bid of nearly $10 million Friday in an online auction. [more]
What Paris can expect behind bars? (AP)
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AP - Paris Hilton better like chicken. The hotel heiress was sentenced Friday to 45 days at the Century Regional Detention Center, Los Angeles County's jailhouse for women just south of downtown in Lynwood. [more]
The Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks (PC World)
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PC World - These online spoofs and shams have made the rounds on Web sites and through e-mail. Perhaps you even believed one or two of them yourself. [more]
Robbers glue victim to exercise cycle (AP)
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AP - A gang of armed robbers forced a man to strip naked and then glued him to his exercise bike and sealed his lips with more glue while they ransacked his house, according to a published report. [more]
Bigfoot risks extinction, says Canadian MP (AFP)
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AFP - Bigfoot, the legendary hairy man-like beast said to roam the wildernesses of North America, is not shy, merely so rare it risks extinction and should be protected as an endangered species. [more]